I've been messing with slide a bit , tooOn Row Jimmysounds like crapI found a cool lil bottle at a bottle dump that I use .... I have a metal one cut from pipe I dont like ....Its fun thoughFreebird intro solo is easy-ish - its slow and you have heard it a million times so that helpsHave fun

Little Red Rooster is a GD bluesy number, where on some occasions both Jerry and Bob were playing a slide.I would recommend not letting Bob influence your slide playing, being that Bob's slide playing is less than musical on many an occasion. Duane, Johnny Winter and Derrick Trucks are the guys to emulate on the slide playing.

FYI - Gary Rossington used two G strings in unison instead of a B string on Freebird (also stuck a screwdriver under the top three strings to raise the action up if you're having trouble getting the right sound though I've always played it unmodified.

FYI - Gary Rossington used two G strings in unison instead of a B string on Freebird (also stuck a screwdriver under the top three strings to raise the action up if you're having trouble getting the right sound though I've always played it unmodified.

that is GREAT information, tcsned. I did know about the screwdriver, you can see it there on live videos, but I did not know about the unison G strings........I play it unmodified and while I hit the right notes, I always wondered why Rossington sounded "thicker" on the G string notes. This explains EVERYTHING......

.......................................................have you heard the one about the yellow dog?

FYI - Gary Rossington used two G strings in unison instead of a B string on Freebird (also stuck a screwdriver under the top three strings to raise the action up if you're having trouble getting the right sound though I've always played it unmodified.

that is GREAT information, tcsned. I did know about the screwdriver, you can see it there on live videos, but I did not know about the unison G strings........I play it unmodified and while I hit the right notes, I always wondered why Rossington sounded "thicker" on the G string notes. This explains EVERYTHING......

Yeah, I got backstage at a Skynyrd show a while back and asked him about it. He used a screwdriver for the studio version and used some sort of wire later on he put them under the top 3 strings only. He'd play slide up to the solo and then yank the wire out and play power chords to the end. He was super nice, also had a nice conversation with Hughie Thomason at that show.

There is an old delta guy that makes slides out of liquor/wine bottles by hand here and sells them at a few local music stores in the area. They are 20 bucks and the bomb. Glass thick enough you can't break it. Been making them for years. If anyone is interested I can get u one. The are so comfy and a breeze to maneuver.

I have seen lots of techniques and approaches like changing tunings, action, strings , special guitars,dobros, lap steels. I like to Play off the pentatonic scale with a mixture of some major licks on a traditional blues song in standard tuning. Statesboro blues was my first learning song and the licks are very usable in all blues songs today. You can take a dead approach but they aren't the first fellas I think of when I think slide.